Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:
Young children are usually very accepting of it. We took our daughter to a civil partneship ceremony last year (when she was 5), between two men. She knows they love one another and want to spend the rest of their lives together. That's fine by her and it needed no more explanation that if we had been going to a hetero wedding.
I hate how many children are manipulated by heterosexism from birth. You know... they have their whole life ahead of them and then stuff like this litters their brains.
I think if you're 5, you're still partly unaware of heterosexism. It's a shame to think that many older children already absorbed so much of it. I know from myself that I had great trouble fitting these two spheres together. Stuff that I have been taught all my life and my intuition that had nothing to do with it. Intuitively, I should have known that I was manipulated, but manipulation makes you blissfully oblivious and you stop thinking and accept social norms. It's really sad. As a teenager, I tried to force myself into these social norms and I realized I couldn't do it. Of course, I didn't question the social norms but myself. Which is why I have such a low self-esteem. Because if you don't work properly, "it's all your fault".
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21 Mar 2012, 7:20 pm
